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16 THE PRISON DEMON. By Juetah Plym •nl Francm Walton. (Copyright, 1900. by McClure, Phillip# & Cos ) 2. Until < comparatively the offi cial Virgil who condut t? vlelfor* through thf la call attention #n a woolen door tn th® tm®®m* v nt of one of the prison buildlnfH It aa# hb rafTwr.tMl cuxtom to wall until the vUltors •* r® vary cioae to tha door before explaining to wltat Inferno it lad. When the eye# of every ore werr ll reefed to the jxi.ik* k by whtrh the d*.or was #rurel. h** m*ouid eay. In a voice charg'd with myatery: “On the Mh‘r #i*t® of tha: dx*r U<ll*a *n.t gentlemen, live# Jlarvay Jrlfffe. tha prison demon " And having {•aur'-d u* allow hi won I- their full affect, he pee #*d gravely on and ar ttailcai y htghtenad tha ourloeJty whi< h he had arou#ad by (Whining to "We alii n<*w pa**.'’ be said. "Into the kiundr'v kepartmant." It omeUOiM happen* <1 thn\ we of the 7*ow* rm That Hub* arrived at the pent* tetitlary and expressed a vHfth to ree ih** Inferno in all It# d* !!*. Again I •>* offi • ial Virgil led the way to the troodsn l*wr, but with a murk and difference of iiMt.iy-r ■A j~ -/ \y ;i m / / uSar* When tha Doctor Return**) to Til# Office Tlnrvev Wai Found Sitting Inn Pool of FUood on the Floor. H had iwelvwl very ik*flnlt Instruction* to chow the "Kentleman" everythin* Ar rtved at the door, he raid nothin* about the prrtwn demon, he *aUI *lm|ily; "Wotild you like to #ee him?" An afltrrontlve n -• trer oaueed to be unlorki'd a serlen of tjoortt. which, when < .4-*O,-1. partially re vealed. Mill behind liar*, one of the celcb rltle* of the Powers That Prey. The celebrity - * willingness to talk" de pended wholly on the mood he happened to be In. The moot successful rusa to be tray him Into conversation wa for tha guard to say, "Harvey, here's a frleiel from Catamaran county " fnlss bust id xrt'h a "tum" at hi* iwllst henk-s or fret ted about the darkness of the day having diminished the light In hi* cell, which was never sufficiently penetrating to allow a spectator to see more thun the bare out lines of the man when he sat on his bed. toe generally took advantage of the Imita tion to show himself, and walkd over to the vialtor'* side of hte dungeon. •‘From Catamaran county, are you?" he would ask "Well, that a a sight bet ter county - n thla 1 ain't kickin', though All they can do to mo I* coop me up an' I can aland on me head 'f I like. They don't dare .Ornc tn here an' let me Unger 'em over. 1 can do up the whole push of >m. I’d like to squeese that guard's throat now Say. you old walnut head, open up the Aon and gimme a chance to be affectionate, will you?" At close range be did not look strikingly like a demon It was difficult, on account ol the hers, to have a satisfactory view of him. but with the exception of his extraordi nary pterrln* brown eyes he gave the Im pression. both in conversation and muri ne r. of being an ordinary prisoner. A well-built body and general muscular ap pearance suggested gcssl health, und his oomph xlon was not much worn l than that of his less closely ctonllned fellow con vict*. At the time of hi* Imprisonment In the underground cell he was about St year* old. On aH occasions, when n privileged visitor was taken to #*e Jetlffe. the ofh cjal explained a Hill* how Jellffe lived. gl* spends hours every day In gym nastic*.'' he would say. "lie be one pf the strongest men 1 ever had to guard If you hfK him why he takes so much emercl*e. h** says: Tm tryln' fo keep my mlmi above my bo-ly.' He mean* that ho Is trying to keep strong Although hr ha si brvn In that <ll for over t*f vnonthfl tit a stretch. he cm still do up any ordinary three men. O. he‘ a ph nonviun, all right. No doubt about that.*' Harvey Jellffe had no’ upon his first entrance Into prison been the demon of the place; he had b*en a most exemplary penitent. laltr he hud committed a mur der In the prison Itself, and had escaped the death penalty only by a surmise. to which he himself refused In the least to assent, of Insanity. It h.id been plain l*oth to Judge and Jury that a man with but a short term still to serve, who comm tied n murder that must be brought home to him. could not he wholly of sound mind. When be got a Mf* sentence he promis'd openly "to do for" th# Harden, and that f lesa miijMtlA and treason and half a dozen other things, besides being fool ish In the meantime, while the warden ahowed respect for his own skin by keep ing out of the way. Harvey kept himself In practice by knocking the •‘screws* heads together ami miscellaneously spoil lag them for weeks after they had passed through his hands, for a visit to their eweerhearts Therefore, as was but reas onable, he had be* n scientifically paddtod. and subjected to hot wafer In Immigra tion. and to electricity, and had been *trung up by the wrists for thirty-six hours, a# a modest minimum, at a stretch. \\ hen he had proved after these delicate attention* that he really did not under stand klnk exw. he was pronounced b> ih# wurden arvl bo urne the prison d< mob, and %va# dealt with a# such. • •••••••• In connecilon with the "Harvey J* llffe Case." o# It I# tomellnpi ralll. there i oiu***rel not long r*go In the |nitil<* print# | a t>aragraph entltl*l. An Kxp* rim* nt In j Penology," whk h read thus; “The warden €f the • • • • • |m nib rtiry hi* h®l lailll a very nmarkabi* < **• in whl<h I are to I** confined two |.n*on*r* who I hove heretofore m * xp* t •*-■ to the j slate which It l- hop**! th* i nov-itiofi i will very considerably reduce. One of th** I prteoner# Is the < *1)-known |*rof* siorml Harvey Jallffr, gfckptilari) •#!!.! the ! Prison Demon. #r>l the other I * mur ; drrrr who. If not ►< Inli*T**ntly irr•** l.ilm -1 tilde (h J llffi, ha> * l>- *oi;fl ♦ I in a separata cell guerdcd by *x* • pri-*n *>fb crr*. *i tie plan K to i*i? r two m- n Into the cage nnd. If p> .* * make them work. Whether fh v work or not. however It is belteved that imp.'l nrmnt In the rage is the most Jit fir r punishment to !>#• im liit out to each fP nd* It * suggested to the warden that th* ' rw# men might turn upon each other and do grave harm, but *hl# j*o.-s;fUif jr and % rot j *ern to glia t *• warden gnat * n *-i . lb M*id in • *. aid to It If th* n :i a tu.iily killed each other he was rot sure that that would rail t> the tie si *.utinn of the problem, TV) the Invm in hls form of ex ecution <an but scm Irregular, to say the leiost, but It Is a nuns!km dc-ervtng of very serious consldcr.itlon by tmlh *|**r lalfsta and lav men whether It would not be wise to ptit such wretches out of the world by process of l.w * Rlnee the publication of this paragraph there have been a number of public Htote menta by professional criminologist* who have examined Jellffe in regard to his de gree of Urgent racy, ami the consensus of opinion among them Is that physically ns well as mentally he |s a pronounce I type of criminal abnormality. They const.ter him the kind of criminal that Prof lom bard suggests might fitly t* put ou of the world. They see no hope what* ver of reforming him. ami do not he-itntc to offer his case as proof of the need of legislation which will permanently ild a community of men of hi# stamp The pri soners in the | ten lien Ha ry where llarvev Jellff* is confined also hive comments o make on his case, but there If a very de cided difference between their remarks <nd thase of the crlminologUt* They do not accept the notion that Jellffe is a de generate; the majority of them believe that from the time he was first s* at to th underground cell until the |r e*nt mo men! h* has acted exactly as they should have acted under similar provocation That the world calls him n "demon" 1* evidence of Ignorance on the pirt >f th** world which they can only laugh at Hut what can Is- expect*<l of men publicly con vie list ot crime? Thtaqucstlon is rtietoi rl 1. which U to say It Is not to he t k*n seriously. At the time that a professor of c Im tnoloiry was conducting hte university seminar through the prison lit order that his student* might see In the flesh som* of th** monsters-he hod described t th*n in the lecture ro*>m a convict by the namisl of Jervis ■ Ilarpaon made a eiate m nt to a group of fallow-prisoner* in re gard to Jellffe which Is represent*itva of the opinion concerning him among the more enlightened |>ow#ra thai prey "Tours*. these college bloke* think Har vey's bughouse.** he *tld; "’cause they ain’t next. I’ve known Harvey ever since he struck the turf. I knew him who,, he was only a kid travelln* with that West ern mot> of grafter* The fellow's awl e one dead wise But tie s go? a grouch o. I dog’i know the whol* o’ the details, but I know enough of 'em to undctstai and that it s a a*e o' grouch an’ not bughou-e" 11. In the life lh.it preceded his tittle of bondage Haney Jellffe was not a man who coveted, or iiwPco who gave great u ( a-iiii for com mb** ration. He did that whlcn ae* md pleasant in his own eye . and what his heart lusted for In* took und k*pt with a string hand In particu lar his heart hid lusted for Nettle llx. and he had taken her from her fath- > and her brothers by dint of Ids strong hand in their fae< In w hat the neigh borhood called u "mix-up, * which oc * urred when he pro|Hx<nl for her hand To be sure, hi preposition was somewhat sudden and was not cou tud In t cen.? that could In the hast t>* called typh of the lovers whining, wheedling defer ence toward the guardian dragons of his beloved. He had t ikl wTh Homeric sim plicity, after having listened to the fam ily protect against h* main wage-earner In their midst lli t ramovad "You can stow that gns for all m Nett an’ ne ts goln* to flit right now If y* ain’t lod set on belt* sorry to part with bet \ can git away from that U**r If y’ and n’t git away JTI walk ’trough y*. ami It might itlsr emulate y’r in slues ' It was then tha? the ’’mlx-up” hud occurred; iiarvey had THE MORNING NEWS: SCNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1900. | "walked Trough" Nettle’s male kinsmen, at Mil events, greatly to the die<adoration < f their outside!*, and quite literally ha l brought away hi. bri l*. He hal not be en bar wince more nor oftener than eh® meded; ?-h® harsel/ stood ready to tes* Ufy to this pith every outward accom paniment of rag* the inrtant she bra' 1 him •reused; and she surety ought to know how oft* n and to what extent she i *.•* In need Nettle wm* more than a Ut ile g'.od to look upon, mid It Is possible t that h*r tolerai • w * great because. no matter how heavily he struck her. liar ‘cry was careful never to disfigure her fa e They had on* i hlid-Hlan. h-of > hum they were both devotedly fond. Detective A kerav wa* not given *> What the voting lady novelists would call assorted sentiment He ha*l heard mem ht n *f t*• *'tii -il 1 g<stiff mw cry Mil insults to which not M r but a good drub (i n | flcient one. and hail s. * n w*men tantallae . man to deal tin Mow which would dis honor him. uni f**m the p int of view | of a member of h f*r<*\ h* thotight th® l low had been ♦ anted, anti ought to be delivered, "A ludy that ain't n lady, and can't net like a lady, don’t *b erve to be * rested like a lady." be had once been heard to declare between Hl# teeth, a* he bundled a bonnet nd skirt, etcetera, roughly into a patrol wagon. To l*c sure, the exasperation ho Il* -n extreme. Th * bonnet and skirt had behaved more os if they contained a larg member of the cat species than a woman, and one side of Detective Ackeray'e face bad been laid opn In broad bands from eye to chin The point Is. however, that Nettle J* fiff*' old act like a lady, according to Detective A kera> s standard ot I* ast. and he once happened to be pn <nt when llarvey Je llff* was executing a bit of matrimonial i and • iplifp. and threaten! to "run Him in’ j The discipline wit being given In the street, and Ackeray would not have be*n I n "fly cof>" had he not be'.ieved it to he hi- right to nk' . hand in all street Impp nlne llarvev believed it to \x hi# right to administer any chasdaenent he * his w ife ii < 'ld wherever it pr*vl moat convenient •This’- my circus." he said, defiantly, when \ keray threaten* ! t* * pln< h" bltn "You rublrer too much with y’r neck, vou k If you can’t do anythin* better than mix yourself In family affairs. Why I’ll help you to get over the habit." "I tell you those, too," Nettie declared, boldly championing her husband’s right to bring her up < cording to his best light. "If you fly cop* *ud fake care o* your own fam lb“ the way you try to take care of other people’s, you’d save morn money. You're nn ol*l w man thut's what you ore. I wouldn't be found decs! livin’ with you." Sock it to him,” "Hit him where he lives." Ki*k him out o' the streets.' ’bystand ers suggested, and Not tie was embold ened t* continue her "roaating.*’ "You Jus’ try to pinch my Harvey," she went on. "W’y. you tong-fogged. I**ather-hcaded front office stiff I'd rather hove my Harvey ki< k me rcg'Nr cv’ry mornln* than drink n bottle of sham with you cv’ry night. You go home an’ see f your own wife don't need n little t round n.' ** Detective Ackergy was not hurt by the frankness of Nettle Jellflfe’s s|>eoeh; neither did ho find It diminished her "ladyship.” On th* contrary, he wiis old-fashioned enough to think a genar *us lie a grace m womanhood, an l that a family qtixrrd Is n snered function no long is the family sin 1 ready to pre sent a united front against the in erven tlon or an outsider "I swig-legged, leather-headed front ofll<*o stiff is not *t ii., kneyc| term nf *-iwVarment, an*! if Nettie Jellff.* ha I iw*en arching for a phrase by which to recommend herself to detective Acg • ray’s esteem, *he might not have hit upon It. Ills taste, however, was mature and sound; he Ud not mind hard word ; they k not kirerate the flesh; he mind 'd onl) boon* ts md skirts with i* .me fiendUh contents; and It stands record •?*) that whereat* before Nettie Jellffe hud rldlcub-d him h<* hud pronounced tier a "cllpjur," after she had ridicule! him he pr i>*mn and her emphatically a "corker." No very definite ideas are at* racked to either of these words, but they tioth *x preas n I miration, inl "corker" I* more nearly xtr rn* than "clipper." IsAter he was heard to say that "that little woman l oo for Jellffe," an l hat h* would k> her a g<>od turn s*>me time If he saw Ids way. He wu* not a man to split hit> about %vhat he thought . good turn, and what she woual think i good turn; If she did not know what wa> g* od for h* r. h • did. wan not good for her to .a* beaten When he arrested Harvey "oti suspicion" In *.xnnection w|?h •he house-breaking in Hlshworthlple. *he crl**l more bitterly than at the time when she had received a hunting she n*k her l*e.tings for the most |ari In h lughty * ll* li t- When he succeedeil In convicting Harvey, altogether on circumstantial ev idence. nnd In obtaining n sentence rf four year?, cho cried stri more ' | jtl\ That wn* a> It should be he liked h* - the be ter liecausc sh' stuck to he min The farewell between husband and wife was neither hartbreaking nor prolonged but It was "on the level," "Take care o* the kid. old girl," Har vey said. ’Tin Innocent, all tight ‘nougn but there nln’t n need for the kid to know where Ia in." "I’ll vis*!! you ng’lar evTy visiting lav." promised Nettle, at the time really intend.ng to keep her promise. "Hcmem •i ur.’ mak* good tim**, an’ don’t get into my rows. I*ll take care o’ Blanche, so you lon’t need to worry. You'll write me, won’t you?" "Bure." • Kbs me goodhy: y* ain’t kissed m. since Blanche’s last birthday. Bolong Mar Yc v." and the train and 11 rVey started tor the "stir’* • ••••• If I>e tec tire Ackeray laid been a mere ~ .vnte cdlgen. and not a prince, r* |>rirtceling. he must in mre cency have forborno for some tim* to express his admiration for Nettie Jcllfle. Tiie cue- LIEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT of Beef makes the difference between a flat, flavorless dish and a tidbit that would tempt the most jaded appetite in the world, v# *# iM iM v# v# tom* of an aristocracy arc more direct; the hui-lnrr* of a prince, an.l even of a princeling require haete, arul their eqb* ■tantlal power make* lle poealhle Courtehlp In the riven rtreum-'. •• war did! olt. I>ut rourtohlp In the riven clr rixnxlUlCl-. I, ala aye difficult, and there are no clrcumefancea whatever in which women have not been wooed and won r>e tecilvo Ackeray beran hi* court*hlp on ■ etreet * orn.T und rontlntied It In a elation hou * He had deprived her of * |riitector who did not protect; he wished lo pro vide her with .inoiher who would; he had not hunted down Harvey out of mallre. It had been hi* buslnes* to work up *uch avldem a, there was, and ha had done his business and rot hi* reward, and the prosecutlnr nttomey had done the r-*t. Th.-. thtiiK* he toUl her roundly, with a manly stralrhtforwardne** that *hould have won the heart or the tmarinatlon or fancy of any woman. When, lnetead of listening to him. *h* rwvtted liln| with f. nilnine finish, point and fluency, hrfore a uatherti.r crowd of ohafflttr nudMora, he proved him*eif a man to he depended up n in an < meregency, one of the stronr dumb-aoul* t'arlyle and Mr. Ruektn used to iclnbrate as natural leader* and ifov rnoi at an n. he promptly placed her under arrest as drunk and dlaordyrly. The next mornlnx In court ahe sufficiently demonstrated her dl*poeitton to dlaorder hy treatlnc his Itonor with an alternate haurhtlntws and eloquence which made the tudtenro behind the rail litter and the double bench of the blum-oata shake with Involuntary mirth. The bailiff cried “silent e," and to clear the court; hi* honor passed sentence of 110 or 10 days. Detective Ackeray |takl the tine In the corridor of the magistrate's court, he gave Nettle what he would have been pleased to call ‘'professloatal" advice. "See here. Net, the next time ‘t I Chew the rag with you about cuttln' up in the streets an' boolin', you want to lis ten—sea?” flhr del not listen the next time, nor the time after, though It need not be doubted that she was impressed—yes! and subdued and attracted—ly the might and decision of the prince. Hhr had loved Harvey mainly because he had vanquish cd her kinsmen, nnd a little because he had beaten her as often tta she needed it and not oftener. In equal logic she ought to have loved the prince, mainly because he had vanquished Harvey, and a llllle because. If he did not beat her to silence her tongue he had discovered a method of procedure which much mor nearly silenced It than any thing thot Hanrey had ever done; and the strong point of everv woman Is logic—the women In their con ventions and clubs say so. But the second -tmne point of every woman Is her g'ft tor i once.ding her logic. Nettle .f'dlffe concealed her* Po for at least as detec tive Ackersy was concerned, as I'tig a In all human cuduranen a woman could. She became an old offender In the sev eral magistrates' courts In the et strict throughout which detective Ackeray had authority The rhnrge was always drunk nnd disorderly, and the complainant al ways Detective Ackeray; mvl sometimes as the months luisscvt she had been .trunk, and she h.*d alwavs been disorderly. She could not go bat k I > her kinsmen h- r mere presence reminded them too vividly of an unph i-ant Incident or ••orua nth n of Incidents, which had taken place t the moment of her departure. Bhe coul 1 rot retain a imelilon even when sh - got one. because of the frequency with which she was under arrest; and heel.tee the fact that -he w as Harvey Jollffe's wife was not commonly regarded as a recommendation. Ackeray paid her fine, or let her pay It herself or work It out. as a Jockey might gentle or punish a spirited horse which ho i training Whether he paid her fine or not. he always rrpeited to her that the next time he tried to chew th- rag with her. she had Iwtter listen— see 1 Her absence from home and her proved intemperance made her an Im prop r guardian for little Blanche. When the child as taken away from her. also it the Instigation of Deiecilve Ackeray. Nettle Jellffe listened. Three month* afterward she wa le gacy and absolutely separated from Har vev and was married to a man whom she oildreaaed sometimes aa “George.” some times as 'dear " ami Rule Blanche, who was restored to her home, was outspoken in her approval of her new papa. Detec tive Ackeray was "George." He was al-o "dear.” 11l It has been remarked In the ffret part of this tale ,ht Harvey Jellffe on be omlng a penitent tn the great pent* tentlary had no notion or Intention of ever bidding fr the notoriety that ha* come to him In lat. r years us the prison de mon He went to the "stir" originally with the Idea of getting all the “good time" that the low allow* a man who lm- been sentenced to four years, and of keeping out of all rows os his wife „l advised He did that which all wise men who are aeiit to prison do; In the language of the pugilist he gathered him self together. Men who go lo prison for the first lime have more difficulty In eying feat ebon those wh* h.\ heaei there bvtore. but to live at all •ucreggfully—and oven prisoners have their standard of success all mu-t soon , t or later hit upon a plan by which they are to deal wllh their guards and fellow pc nil ants with us little friction aa poe- Mhl. Even with the most oureful there „re moments when they entirely forget their philosophy and do things which In the open day they would never have been guilts of; long confinement will disturb the mental equilibrium of any man. but all must struggle to live as unobtrusive lives .is umler the circumstances are possible. Harvev Jellffe. on arriving al the great penitentiary, knew with a certainty which would have made some men com mit aotetde. that he wa'< Innocent of the crime' for which he had been convicted; hut he knew. also, that It was no use to let this fact govern his policy as a |wl on. r It was not for him lo ask the prl*. on world how r why his copy lesion hud con.c about; II was tor him to he .in ex ■ mpktry convict And so, wondering all the while how things were going "on the • >it t ie " and continually struggling with m Impatience nt Ike way the world la made re worked hard for ’wo years and ter ■ month“ to get a "gotsi rotsktii'' re • lui in “f htw eentSms Th're remaimet nt a lew niuntha mor. of confinement, if.d they were to be the least Irksome . f ii | b. iuse Harvey ha climbed the nights which led to the eminence of a “truaty;" he had become the errand hoy of the prison doctor, and was sent on G>m mlrslon* to all the different departments. One day. whfte on an errand to the glove bpartment. ho met au old acquaintance who had recently been committed to th institution, and he asked him for news of the "outside." "How I* the push enroll)' on?" he quer ied. referring lo hhl okl 'pahs." Home wer, "nettled" (Ui prison like himself) h* learn ed, others were .had, and still others were upeintlng Ln new held* "What's the mglter with Not? 1 ain't heard anythin' from her for two year*." "Ain't re on* put you next?" the new .“msr counter queltkmed him "N-xt to what? She ain't dr-.id, la ahe?" "No. site's live an' kickin’ yet. but thg fly cop Ackeray twig btd up with hr They're married." "Where* the kid?" "She's Itvln with Ackeray, too. Calls him paps A guard appearsd Just then, and the conversation was broktm off. It had been successful, however; Harvey had wanted "news" and he had got It. There were other trip, to th* glove department to se cure the details of the story by wont of moutb. but hie own imagination had patched them hktether for him and he had teamed the main fact, which was that Ackeray "had done him dirt." The un merited conviction and Imprisonment be came to him now part of a general scheme to "ditch" him. The Injustice of the pun tehment had troubled him and roa*.e It hard to obey the rules, but he had con quered the temjwatlon to be unruly. He had been punled by Nettie's refusal to write, but he had no! connected Ackeray wrtth her neglect of him In an indefinite way he had planned some day to settle ac count* with A- keray for the pari he had played In his (Harvey 1 #) misfortune*, bu! the thought of w-ay* and means hid not captured his mind, that could be attended to after he had secured hts reduction of sentence. Had he been "outside" even the news of Ackeray"# theft of hts wife and chtkt might possibly have been aa rcas at ably considered as had the conviction that tie was unjustly a prisoner Men <J Har vey's stamp are much ■ aimer In the open than In the "stir." and marriage .nd divorce take on no such final proportions It had taken all of Harvey's good sense, however, to be a model penitent, an t th complete revelation of Ackeray'* dupll I ty tired him with a desire for revenge Henceforth hi* one pas-ton was t" m et Ackeray He still remained a "trusty." good behavior had become automatic wl'h him, but hi, ambition was no longer simp ly to be released. He apoke to the war den and the guards of hie wish to have a talk with Ackeray. He said that there was a suspended sentence hanging ov* r him in another court, sift bo wanted to know If Ackeray would! be willing "to fix things up for him." "He's the only fellow that can straighten the matter out." he explained to the warden, "and I want to have a talk wMh him " "You're afraid you'll be arrested on being turned loose from here, ta that It 1 asked the warden. "That's exactly It," said Harvey, "and I think If Ackeray 'll go to the front for me I won't he bothered." "All right Ackeray * goln' to bring some prisoners here In a day or so, an I’ll let him know." Three days luter detective Ackeray ar rived at the grout penitentiary with a hatch of penitents, for wnosc bodies he was given a receipt by the warden He wa* Informed of Harvey's desire for a talk with him. and was immediately Impree-cd with the importance to him self of such a talk. Foestbty ho might And It to his advantage to arrange mat ters so that the alleged suspended sen tence should be carried out. "Sure. I'll see him." he said to the warden "Where is he?" "You'll probably find him over In the doctor's office. Take him Into the gar. den If you want to be private, and tell the doctor 1 aald It would he all right." The meeting took place ln the doc tor'* office. The doctor wae In another purt of the prison, and Harvey taxi been left In charge No one heard the con versation between the two men. and only two of the guard knew anything about their being together Whether Harvey made use of hla "suspended sentence" story, or ehargtd Ackeray Immediately with foul treatment of him has never been deckled The two men were in con ference according to the testimony of the guards, about half an hour, and it aeeme reasonable to suppose that Harvey could only have Interested Ackerav this length of time by reference to the suspended sentence, hut In view of what happened one |s Justified In wondering why he should have wanted to Interest him at all Harvey himself has perskMntly re fusid to make any statement one way or the other. When the doctor returned to his office Harvey was found sitting In a pool of b!no*t on th* floor, cutting Into small bit* with n surgeon's kr.lfe the heart of detective Ackeray, who lay dead and mutilated in a comer of the room. At the trial It wae reported that Harvey hod mumbled himself as He cut. "So much for so much, for that and for that." hut no Intelligible interpretation of either expression could be discovered, nnd they were eventually accepted as contributory evidence of hts Insanity. CANCER Sufferers from this horrible malady nearly always inherit it not necessarily from the parents, but may t>e from some remote ancestor, for Cancer often runs through several generations. This deadly poison may lay dormant in the blood for years, or until yon reach middle life, then the first little sore or ulcer makes its ap pearance — or a swollen gland in the breast, or some other part of the body, gives the first warning. 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